Syntacticians

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

Danish linguist (1860–1943)

Danish linguist (1846–1896)

linguist (1914–2011)

Croatian linguist

American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming

populariser of theoretical linguistics

French linguist (1893–1954)

American linguist and philosophy professor

American linguist

Israeli academic (1905-1991)

American linguist (1929-2014)

Israeli journalist and linguist (1943-2007)

Russian linguist and ethnographer (1883–1967)

American philosopher (1957-)

American linguist

linguist

American linguist

Canadian professor of linguistics

British-American linguist

Italian linguist

American academic linguist (1949–2013)

British linguist

Dutch linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Groningen

American linguist

American linguist

French linguist

Danish linguist (1905-1964)

Finnish linguist

linguist (1962-)

Scottish-American linguist

Canadian linguist

American linguist

Italian linguist

British linguist

British linguist (1934–2023)

American linguist